Right-wing Populist Politics of History for Destabilising Democratic Systems | Summary of the Essay by Valentin Loos in Historia Prima, 2. 2025
This post is an abridged version of an essay in the second issue of Historia Prima, which appeared in May 2025 under the title "'What we are experiencing here is 1933 on a global level, that is, the total seizure of power.' The Functionalization of…
Digital Public History Workshop “The ‘Emsland Camps’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation
On 5 June 2025, a workshop took place at the Esterwegen Memorial with students from years 11 and 12 of Georgianum Lingen. The event was conducted as part of the project "The 'Emslandlager' as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation. Research-based…
Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium: Digital History & Humanities – Research, Teaching and Infrastructures in Dialogue on 17 July 2025
On 17 July 2025, the fourth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present and discuss outstanding theses as well as their projects in the field…
StreitBar: Between Lecture Hall and Debate Room – Studying (Un)politically? A Conversation Between Student Generations at UOS.
"Politics? I don't have time for that" – a sentence that can be heard again and again at universities. Between academic pressure, earning a living, growing up and the supposedly "best time of life", there seems to be little room left for political…
NGHM as Guest | “80 Years Later – Using History for Democracy”: Panel Discussion at Georgianum in Lingen.
On 21 May, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass was a guest at the Georgianum in Lingen. There, students prepared a panel discussion on questions of historical and memory culture in the context of Nazi rule, the Second World War and the Holocaust as part of their…